Market Trends and Analysis The Column www.thecolumn.eu.com November 2006
Electronic Laboratory Notebook Market Profile: $90 $80 Electronic Lab $70
Notebooks $60 USD millions $50 Laboratories use a paper notebook to
document research, experiments and procedures, similar to that of a
personal journal $40 or, in some instances, a scrapbook. Laboratory
notebooks are essential wherever scientific research is conducted, where
data is $30 collected and where ideas are or might be developed that could
be patented. The lab notebook is often maintained to be a legal $20 2004
document and may be used in court as evidence. However, more R&D labs are
abandoning the bound paper 2005 notebooks and are becoming paperless. In
its simplest form, an $10 electronic laboratory notebook ELN is a software
program that 2006 collects and organizes data from unrelated sources into a
single systems $0 repository. that have ELNs are fairly new technology and
offer many advantages certainly lowered over paper notebooks. It allows
easier collaboration among user these barriers. The ELN groups, better
record keeping and can be made more secure market is estimated at than
their paper counterparts. ELNs provide a means to secure $80
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